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A boy aged 11 was shot in the head by a sniper as pupils boycotted classes on the first day of a new school year, activists said yesterday.

Ibrahim Mohammed al-Faroukh, from the southern village of Sanamein, near Deraa, died at the scene, according to the Local Co-ordinating Committees. A spokesman for the group, Omar al-Idlibi, told The Times it was impossible to get further details about the boy’s death due to a military clampdown.

Security forces in Damascus fired into the air to disperse student protesters and a video posted online showed students in Homs tearing up their class